after configuring failover + load balancing on the mikrotik, i'd like to congratulate all my friends for having an odd IPv4 address
"why is speedtest.net showing double the speed, but all hosts I mtr end up going through the same ISP?" well, the mikrotik load-balances with out_iface=(ip_addr%sum_ifaces), so for two upstreams it's odd vs even numbers (with some exceptions?), and the IPs I tested with were: 1.1, 1.1.1.1, sakamoto.pl (ends with .103), athena.infr.ax (ends with .181), then a couple others
ODD IP GANG
dmiException 🎃 --> DHCP
npub1ng…sgs86
2026-07-29 20:46:12 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1ngslnpcavc09e9l34de0608hr66ktpr8fyudckvycju23nmlynmsrsgs86Seen on
wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-07-29 20:46:12 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "after configuring failover + load balancing on the mikrotik, i'd like to congratulate all my friends for having an odd IPv4 address\n\n\"why is speedtest.net showing double the speed, but all hosts I mtr end up going through the same ISP?\" well, the mikrotik load-balances with out_iface=(ip_addr%sum_ifaces), so for two upstreams it's odd vs even numbers (with some exceptions?), and the IPs I tested with were: 1.1, 1.1.1.1, sakamoto.pl (ends with .103), athena.infr.ax (ends with .181), then a couple others\n\nODD IP GANG",
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}